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The Taleban leadership is prepared to negotiate a ceasefire with Western
forces and renounce its past links with al-Qaeda in exchange for a stake in
Afghanistan’s political future, senior figures within the militant group
claim.

In a paper released by the Royal
United Services Institute, a British think-tank, four unnamed former and
current Taleban leadership figures claim that an emerging consensus is “far
more pragmatic” than previously made public. The paper, Taleban
Perspectives on Reconciliation, argues that the main Taleban council
based in Quetta, Pakistan, would consider a negotiated ceasefire.